The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26

MASKED robbers boarded leNaS-GaClnC
express train at Gordon, Texas, and Sc
cured $4,000.
THIEVES robbed the house of S. X. Bliss
of Waltham, Mass, of $1,000 worth of jew
elry on Sunday.
THE steamer Brentford, from Newport for
Malta, has been wrecked, and all on board
but one were lost.
THE Ascending cashier of the Peoria,
Ill.,, bank will, by consent of Canadian
law, he eXtradited.
THE lower house of the Illinois legisla-
ture has passed bill appropriating $4,000
FOR Logan monument.
SINCE the Tifin (O.) railway disaster, the
railroad employees are required to sign the
total abstinence pledge.
IT is denied from st. Petersburg that
conference of the powers has been called to
discuss the Bulgarian question.
DR.. WILLIAM GREESLBAF ELLIOTT, presi-
dent of Washington University, st. Louis,
died Sunday, aged seventy-ive.
Miss CATHARINE BRUCE, daughter of the
late George Bruce, donated S50,0O0 to the
New York Free Circulating library.
THE pope will cooperate with Emperor
William to keep the relations between
Prussia and the Vatican harmonious.
IT is semi-ofically stated that the Presi-
dent will appoint the new interstate COM
merce commissioners before March 4.
Mrs. CLARIssA RAYMOND of Wilton, Ct,
is dead, aged one hundred four years and
eight months. Her husband died in 1914.
TEN thousand persons attended a demon
stration in honor of Michael Davitt and
wife in Madison Square Garden, New York.
The mercury fell to ~ in Southern Cali
fornia about ten days ago, and the orange
crop in some sections was seriously injured.
A FALSE cry of fire created panic in
thaa frn nft 1ln lVA1r n N
London, and seven persons were trampled
to death.
HAUGEN, republican, has been elected to
fill the vacancy in the eighth Wisconsin dis
trict occasioned by the death of Congress-
man Price.
THE World says that Miss Van Zandt of
Chicago, who wants to marry the con-
demned anarchist Spies, virtually proposed
marriage herself.
DIR. MCGLYNN, it is now announced, has
not been unfrocked. He has simply been
suspended for reasons which will be made
public if he consents.
The locomotive of passenger train on
the Louisville & Nashville railroad exploded
Sunday, killing the engineer and fireman
and wrecking two cars.
THE sheriff very properly refused to allow
Miss Van Iandt to enter the Chicago Jail to
see Spies, and therefore the foolish mar
riage cannot take place.
The Grand Lodge of Connecticut has de-
posed the officers of Hiram Lodge of New
Haven, in which originate counter-claims of
much Masonic importance.
IT showed continually for twenty-four
hours in Canada, January II and Is, accom-
panied by high wind. The expense to the
railroads was about $4,000.
GOVERNOR AMEs has signed the pardon of
S. Angler Chace of Fall River, who was
sentenced for embezzlement June n, 1873,
to twelve years in the state prison.
A BRITISH gunboat was wrecked on the
northumberland coast. Nineteen of the
crew were saved by the rocket apparatus,
but the fate of the Others is unknown.
AFTER three days delay, and after four
engines and snow plOws were disabled in
the job the Galena passenger train has
been eXtricated from a Snow-drift in west
ern Wisconsin.
PINKERToN men doing guard duty at Lack
awana railroad yards in Jersey City, Thurs
day, fired into a company of boys who jereed
at them, and killed Thomas Hogan, who
was looking on
Mrs. L. j. TowsLEY of Chicago fell from
a stage coach that capsized at Independence
Pass, Colorado, down a precipice 400 feet,
but was buried in snow bank and rescued
She was uninjured.
The ice in Lake Erie suddenly broke up
at Buffalo, Thursday while many people
were upon it, Six hundred were floating
about on ice cakes, but it is not known that
any lives were lost.
HAIGHT, one of Witrock's accomplices in
the express robbery, says he devised the
scheme and proposed it to Witrock, and
Witrock went ahead before Haight knew it,
He declares that Fotheringham, the train
messenger, is innocent.
FIRES: Jewett NJ. Richmonds fine resi-
dence at Buffalo; loss 100000. - City
railroad round-house, New Orleans; loss
$4,000 - Business block at Kokomo,
Ind; loss $4,000. Several buildings
at Alliance, o.. loss 100000.
A DISASTROUS prairie fire swept across the
country north of Talequah, Indian Terri
tory, last week, destroying barns, dwell
ings, hay stacks, corn cribs and other prop
erty. Numerous pigs were roasted in their
pens. No human life was lost.
THE st. Paul ice palace was opened last
week. Mercury stood fifteen below zero.
Eighteen miles of gas pipe were used in
illumination and 10000 colored lights We're
used in arches and side lights. The streets
presented a beautiful appearance.
The secretary Of state has received dis
patches from Buenos Ayres stating that the
deaths from Asiatic cholera in that city in
November last were 93, and that business is
virtually suspended there. The death rate
in Rosario has sometimes reached 90 day.
a CAR of fur recently shipped from Win
nipeg by the Hudson Bay Company repre-
sented the destruction of 49, bears, siXty-iive
silver foxes, 3l3I beavers, 800 foxes 1855
! lynXes, Sl7S martins, 2Gl wolverines, POI
wolves and host of small animals. Toronto
| Globe.
The latest railroad rumor is that a lease
of the Boston * Lowell by the Concord
road in the near future is by no means an
iinpossibility. 1t is understood that the
| Boston & Lowell company would not OBJ
ject to a lease of its property upon fair
rental, and the Concord road is just as
liable to get it as the Boston x Maine
The theft of thirty-fve hundred hogs
from stock trains in the last two years has
just been discovered in Wisconsin. The
thieves boarded the cars, opened the doors
threw out the porkers, closed the doors and
then jumped off. The gang owned a big
soap factory in Chicago, and made thou.
sands of dollars. The loss to shippers il
about twenty thousand dollars.
A PASSENGER train was halted by sud.
den pull on the bell-cord near Independence
Mo-, Thursday. When the conductor and
brakeman rushed to the forward part of the
train to ascertain the cause they were free
upon by man on the front platform of the
smoker. The engineer was also fired on
A gang of robbers had planned to go through
the train but abandoned the job suddenly.
SIMPSON HARRIS died in Putnam county
Ind, Friday, aged 100 years. He was borr
in North Carolina, January |, l77S. III,
cast his first vote for Jefferson for presiden
in 1901, and has voted at every presidential
election since. He was veteran of the